• 45th Annual Ann and Stephen Kaufman Jewish Book & Arts Festival, Houston, October 28-Novovember 12
• 26th Annual San Antonio Express-News Book & Author Luncheon, October 30
• ReadFest Houston 2017, November 2-4
• World Fantasy 2017, San Antonio, November 2-5
• 7th annual Dobie Dichos: Campfires, Chili con Carne, and the Words of J. Frank Dobie, Oakville, November 3
• George West Storyfest, November 3-5
• First Fort Bend County Book Festival, Richmond, November 4
• Frisco Book Fest, November 4
• Noche de Letras, Latinx Book Fest, Austin, November 4
• Lit Crawl Austin, November 4
• Texas Book Festival, Austin, November 4-5

Ongoing Exhibits

• 45th Annual Ann and Stephen Kaufman Jewish Book & Arts Festival, Houston, October 28–November 12
• Fact, Fiction, and the New World: The Role of Books in the Making of America (a Humanities Texas exhibition), Midland, October 1-December 1

Sunday, October 29

Austin

• BookPeople, Hayden Gilbert, Jeremy Hepler, Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, Bryce Wilson, RJ Joseph, and Bret McCormick speaking & signing ROAD KILL: Texas Horror by Texas Writers VOL 2 (moderated by E.R Bills), 2PM
• BookPeople, author Taisia Kitaiskaia and illustrator Katy Horan speaking & signing Literary Witches, 5PM
• First United Methodist Church, VAN JONES speaking & signing Beyond the Messy Truth (in conversation with Forrest Wilder of The Texas Observer), 4PM [ticketed event]
• Malvern Books, celebrate the launch of Kathryn Lane’s Backyard Volcano and Other Mysteries of the Heart, an anthology of short stories (with Lowell Mick White), 4PM
• The Writing Barn, Workshop: “Do It Again: Conventions and Experiments in the Art of Revision” with Adam Soto, 3:30PM

Dallas

• Half Price Books Mothership, local author Kena Sosa will sell and sign her children’s book, The Unhuggables, and local author Earlina Green will sell and sign her self-help book, The Beginner’s Guide to Finding Your Brave, 1PM
• Half Price Books Mothership, illustrator, artist, and graphic novelist Nidhi Chanani will discuss and sign her debut graphic novel, Pashmina, 5PM
• Lucky Dog Books – Oak Cliff, Texas artist and Tarot deck author Taylor Ellis will be performing readings, 12PM

Houston

• Writespace, Workshop: “How to Find an Agent” with Joy Preble, 3PM

San Antonio

• The Twig Book Shop, Pat Hammond signs Name Them–They Fly Better: Pat Hammond’s Theory of Aerodynamics, 12PM

Monday, October 30

Dallas

• Aaron Family Jewish Community Center, Mark Sullivan discusses and signs Beneath a Scarlet Sky, 7PM
• Half Price Books Mothership, New York Times bestselling-author Maggie Stiefvater will discuss and sign her new fantasy book, All the Crooked Saints, 7:30PM [pass required]
• Teatro Dallas, Arts & Letters Live presents An Evening Celebrating Two Giants: Juan Rulfo and Cardona Peña, 7:30PM

Frisco

• B&N – Stonebriar, YA author event: Jessica Taylor signs A Map for Wrecked Girls, Julie Murphy signs Ramona Blue, and Samantha Mabry signs All the Wind in the World, 7PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Slavs and Tatars discuss and sign MOLLA NASREDDIN, 7PM
• Lawndale Art Center, 8th Annual MUSICAL AND LITERARY OFRENDA, 6PM

San Antonio

• B&N – Northwoods, Blessed in the Darkness: How All Things Are Working for Your Good book signing with Joel Osteen, 7PM

Tuesday, October 31

Austin

• Chez Zee American Bistro, Halloween with Edgar Allan Poe, 8PM
• Spiderhouse Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam Halloween Edition featuring Lino Anunciacion, hosted by Jomar, 7PM

Houston

• Bohemeo’s, Glass Mountain fall reading series featuring Connor Bracken, Will Burns, and B.J. Love, 7PM

San Antonio

• The Korova, Puroslam with DJ Donnie Dee, 9:30PM
• Trinity University, Trinity Review Halloween, 7PM
• Trinity University Holt Center, Words Matter Series: Kenny Fries and Sheila Black will be speaking on “Writing the Body,” 7PM

Wednesday, November 1

Austin

• Austin Public Library – Central, #NaNoWriMo Author Panel, 6PM
• BookPeople, JULIE LYTHCOTT-HAIMS speaking & signing Real American, 7PM
• Bullock Museum, High Noon Talk: Chuck Bailey discusses Picturing Texas Politics, 12PM

Dallas

• Deep Vellum Books, Pegasus Reading Series featuring Sean Enfield, Matthew Pitt, Tatiana Ryckman, and Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, 7PM
• Interabang Books, Eileen Myles reads and signs AFTERGLOW: A DOG MEMOIR, 7PM
• SMU, 29 Acres and SMU Veterans in Business host Ron Susskind discussing Life Animated: A Tale of Autism and Hidden Potential, 6PM

Denton

• UNT on the Square, Judge Tonya Parker of the 116th Civil District Court will conduct a discussion with Mark Phariss, Vic Holmes, and David Collins, author of Accidental Activists: Mark Phariss, Vic Holmes, and Their Fight for Marriage Equality in Texas, 5PM

Houston

• Avant Garden, Write About Now Poetry Slam, 7:30PM
• Blue Willow Bookshop, Author Colin Meloy and illustrator Carson Ellis will discuss and sign their newest collaboration, THE WHIZ MOB AND THE GRENADINE KID, 6PM
• Brazos Bookstore, John Freeman discusses FREEMAN’S VOL. 4, 7PM
• The Jung Center, Emily Esfahani Smith discusses The Power of Meaning: Crafting a Life That Matters, 5:30PM

Irving

• South Irving Library, How Comics Get Made with Author Andy Hirsch, 5PM

San Antonio

• Gemini Ink, Workshop: “Creative Entrepreneurship: Methods for the Working Writer” with Kenny Fries, 6PM

Wichita Falls

• Wichita Falls Museum of Art, Jan Jarboe Russell, author of The Train to Crystal City, is the next guest for Midwestern State University’s Speakers and Issues Series, 7PM

Thursday, November 2

Austin

• Austin Conference Center, Texas Conference for Women featuring Sheryl Sandberg, author of Lean In and Option B; Mary Jennings Hegar, author of Shoot Like a Girl; Tiffany Dufu, author of Drop the Ball; Sarah Robb O’Hagan, author of Extreme You: Step Up. Stand Out. Kick Ass. Repeat; and Laura Vanderkam, author of I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time, 7:30AM
• BookPeople, LISA FAIN (the Homesick Texan) speaking & signing Queso! (in partnership with Edible Austin for the eats), 7PM
• CamibaArt, december magazine launch party and reading featuring Michael Anania, Harold Whit Williams, and Tim Krcmarik, 6:30PM
• Malvern Books, An Evening with Manuel Gonzales, author of The Regional Office Is Under Attack!, and Owen Egerton, author of Hollow, 7PM
• Resistencia Bookstore, Recuerdos y Letras: An Evening with Author Sarah Rafael García with a creative writing workshop, and a reading and signing of SanTana’s Fairy Tales, 6:30PM
• UT – Avaya, The Michener Center for Writers hosts poet Marie Howe, 7:30PM
• The Writing Barn, Workshop: “The Personal Essay: Writing the World” with Sarah Smarsh, 6:30PM

Canyon

• West Texas A&M, Poetry reading by Denise Duhamel, 7PM

College Station

• The George H.W. Bush Presidential Library Center, Humorous Poetry by Poet Col. Wayne Edwards, The Family Poet, 10:30AM & 12:30PM

Dallas

• Dallas Arboretum, A Writer’s Garden Literary Symposium and Luncheon featuring Jessica Dupuy, author of United Tastes of Texas: Authentic: Recipes from All Corners of the Lone Star State, and Pamela Walker, author of Growing Good Things to Eat in Texas, 9:30AM
• Deep Vellum Books, Bradley Spinelli reads and signs The Painted Gun (in conversation with David Hale Smith), 7PM
• Half Price Books Mothership, designer, engineer, artist, playwright and comedy writer Jonny Sun will discuss and sign his illustrated story everyone’s a aliebn when ur a aliebn too, 7PM [pass required]
• Interabang Books, Zach & Dr. Kelly Weinersmith discuss and sign SOONISH, 7PM
• The Wild Detectives, Melissa Febos reads and signs her collection of essays, Abandon Me, 7:30PM

Fort Worth

• TCU, Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies Presents 2017 Fall Speaker Series with Jonathan Eig, author of Ali, 7PM
• TCU, Live Oak Reading Series featuring author Elena Passarello, 6:30PM

Houston

• Blue Willow Bookshop, Ree Drummond (aka The Pioneer Woman) will sign her newest cookbook THE PIONEER WOMAN COOKS: COME AND GET IT!: Simple, Scrumptious Recipes for Crazy Busy Lives, 5PM [ticketed event]
• Brazos Bookstore, Eileen Myles reads and signs AFTERGLOW, 7PM
• Murder By the Book, Stuart Woods will sign his new Stone Barrington novel, Quick and Dirty, 6:30PM
• River Oaks Bookstore, Marec Bela Steffens reads and signs Thyme Will Tell: The Adventures of an Old-School European Highwayman in Houston, Texas, 5PM

Lubbock

• Texas Tech, TTU Creative Writing Program Reading Series hosts Pushcart Prize-winning poet Kamilah Aisha Moon, 7:30PM

San Antonio

• Pearl Stable, the San Antonio Book Festival presents Get Lit with Mark Bittman, author of How To Cook Everything Vegetarian, 6PM
• UT Health San Antonio Holly Auditorium, Gail Saltz, M.D. discusses and signs The Power of Different: The Link Between Disorder & Genius, 12PM

Sugar Land

• B&N – First Colony, Story time with local author Maria Ashworth, 10AM

Friday, November 3

Austin

• BookPeople, LYDIA KANG speaking & signing Quackery (in conversation with Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz), 7PM
• Malvern Books, launch of poet Kathleen Peirce’s Vault with Lisa Olstein, hosted by Cecily Parks, 7PM
• Resistencia Bookstore, Texican Lit Celebration: Austin, San Antonio, Houston, & Dallas Unite featuring Tony Diaz, Sylvana Avila Alonzo, Josue Gabriel de Montemayor, and Bárbara Renaud González, 7PM

Dallas

• Interabang Books, Eryk Pruitt reads and signs WHAT WE RECKON, 7PM
• Moody Performance Hall, Oral Fixation presents “Jump Off a Cliff” featuring Gretchen Carlson, author of Be Fierce: Stop Harassment and Take Your Power Back, 8PM

Houston

• Inprint House, First Friday Poetry Reading Series presents Michael Sofranko, 8:30PM
• Murder By the Book, Ryan Gattis will sign and discuss Safe, 6:30PM
• Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church, Jeffrey Eugenides reads FRESH COMPLAINT, 7:30PM [ticketed event]
• Rice University, 2017 Camden Series speaker: Professor Julian Yates, author of Of Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast: A Multispecies Impression, 4PM
• University of Houston, Glass Mountain Write-a-Thon, 9AM
• University of Houston – Cullen Performance Hall, The Moth GrandSLAM III: “Out on a Limb,” 7:30PM

San Antonio

• The Twig Book Shop, Special Story time with children’s author and illustrator Jose Lucio, 10:30AM
  
• UTSA, Creative Writing Reading Series hosts poet Emmy Pérez, 7PM

Saturday, November 4

Austin

• B&N – Arboretum, Twinkle Zaman signs her new poetry collection, Twenty Something, 2PM
• Davis Gallery, Robert Craig Bunch and artists Barbara Irwin, John Sager, Steve Brudniak, and Steve Wiman will sign The Art of Found Objects: Interviews with Texas Artists, TBA
• Malvern Books, An Evening with poets Bruce Bond, Yahia Lababidi & Kurt Heinzelman, 7PM
• Sur La Table, James Beard Taste America Austin: cooking demonstrations and book signings by All-Star Ludo Lefebvre and local star Tyson Cole, 10AM
• UT Fine Arts Library, University of Texas Libraries presents “Experiencing Artist’s Books,” 5:30PM

Dallas

• B&N – Lincoln Park, It Devours!: A Welcome to Night Vale Novel discussion and signing with Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor, 5PM
• Interabang Books, Doni Blair discusses and signs EVEN IF IT KILLS ME, 2PM

El Paso

• B&N – Sunland Park, Jesus in the Manger book signing with Linda Ward, 2PM
• El Paso Public Library – Memorial Park, Tumblewords Project Workshop: “Compression” with author Kit Wren, 12:45PM

Houston

• Alley Theatre, Savannah Blue Arts & Outreach presents twenty of the nation’s top women poets in Women On The Bayou Poetry Slam, a totally different performance that will combine the art of Poetry and Dance, 7PM
• B&N – River Oaks, My Favorite Color is Blue. Sometimes.: A Journey Through Loss with Art and Color book signing with Roger Hutchison, 1PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Joseph Keckler reads and signs DRAGON AT THE EDGE OF A FLAT WORLD, 7PM
• Half Price Books – North Oaks, Local Author Saturdays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release!, while supplies last
• River Oaks Bookstore, Valerie Peterson-Kelly read and sign Reflections Yours and Mine: A Poetic Memoir, and Elliott G. Kelly reads and signs The Awaited Journey, 3PM
• Writespace, Workshop: “Jumpstart Your Writing” with Dr. Cindy Childress, 1PM
• Young Neighborhood Library, Public Poetry Reading Series featuring Michelle Burk, Christina Martinez, Glynn Irby, Chuck Wemple, 2PM

Humble

• Half Price Books, Local Author Saturdays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release!, while supplies last

San Antonio

• The Twig Book Shop, William Darling signs Anahuac, 11AM
  

Sunday, November 5

Austin

• Malvern Books, launch of Lyman Grant’s new poetry collection, Old Men on Tuesday Mornings, which is dedicated to four other Austin men—John Lee, Bill Jeffers, David Jewel, and John McElhenney—and they will also be reading, 4PM
• Malvern Books, an after-hours reading featuring poets Mahogany Browne, Sam Sax, and Saretta Morgan, hosted by Carrie Fountain, 6:30PM

Dallas

• B&N – Lincoln Park, Sisters First: Stories from Our Wild and Wonderful Life book signing with Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush, 2PM
• Half Price Books Mothership, journalist and editor Annette McGivney will sell and sign Pure Land: A True Story of Three Lives, Three Cultures and the Search for Heaven on Earth, 1PM
• Interabang Books, Miriam Cooke & Bruce Lawrence discuss and sign Islam and the Middle East: Beyond Headlines, 3PM
• The Mix Co-working Space, Writing Workshops Dallas Seminar: “SELF-EDITING SEMINAR: How to Self-Edit: 50 Essential Tips for Honing Every Manuscript” with Blake Atwood, 3PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, C. Morgan Babst reads and signs THE FLOATING WORLD, 5PM

Mansfield

• Half Price Books, Local Author Sundays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release!, while supplies last

Red Oak

• Oaks Fellowship Church, Candace Payne discusses Laugh It Up, 6PM

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